The Name of the Beast

[Rene' Seindal]

>>> Xinu (stands for "Xinu is no [sic] Unix")
>>
>>Are you sure?  The story I heard was that the official name of Xinu is
>>"Mt Xinu", which is really "Unix tm", backwards.

>no doubt this is the honest-to-god truth as far as the person who invented
>it is concerned, but i suspect the lawyers prefer the "Xinu is not UNIX"
>version much better.

You shouldn't mix up Xinu (Douglas Comers baby OS for LSI-11's) with Mt. Xinu,
which sells 4.3BSD with NFS.  They are totally unrelated.

Rene' Seindal, DIKU, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. (seindal at diku.dk)